From: "Alexandru E. Ungur" <alexandru@...>
Date: 2006-04-17T16:26:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie's Ruby IDE Editor Roundup, April 2006

>>> sender: "Javaman49" date: "Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 10:59:56AM +0900" <<<EOQ
Hi,

> 5. My winner, Arachnoby
My winner, Vim7 +
http://blog.hasno.info/blog/segfault/?month=4&day=10&year=2006

> Works out of the box! 
Ok, you got me there, it dosen't work right out of the box, you have to
'install' a few plugins, that is to copy them to $HOME/.vim/plugins or
whatever...

> It has Ruby syntax highlighting, 
That it has, right out of the box I believe,

> very nice "as you type" indentation, 
That too,

> debugger, 
Mmm, Ruby has that by itself, don't really miss it,

> live syntax checking. 
That can be setup, no problem,

> The default colour scheme is garish, 
The default color is nice ;),

> but an alternative scheme can be selected. 
Here too,

> The auto-complete function is basic - it just looks for identifiers within 
> the current file. 
Aha, so does Vim7... out of the box, *but*, with the above mentioned
plugin you get 'intellisens' for real, that is autocompleting the
methods, not the 'words in the file'... Yummy!

jEdit is also really nice, so is SciTE, I've used them both, however...
Vim is Vim...  I probably forgot to mention a few thigs as well, but
the time invested in (re)learning it, it really pays off in the end.
Oh, BTW, you can find the official Vim configuration files for the
compilation, indenting, and syntax highlighting of Ruby files here:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/vim-ruby/


Good luck,
Alex